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MIAMI — We've got boat rides. We've got paddlewheelers and pirate ships, air boats and catamarans. Speedboats, glass-bottom boats, schooners, yachts and purpose-built tour boats. We've got fast rides, slow rides and hop-on, hop-off boat tours that you can ride all day. Ones that serve cocktails, others that don't, and some that encourage you to bring your own drinks aboard. Most of the rides go year-round, although some cut the number of trips or the boats in their fleets during their slow season — whenever that is. The Fort Lauderdale Water Taxi, which is operated by a Massachusetts company, sent its biggest boats up to Boston for the summer right after...

The slightly soft-porn Wella Balsam ads notwithstanding, the infamous appearance on "Late Show With David Letterman" aside, it is impossible to overstate Farrah Fawcett's cultural influence.
With her practice-makes-perfect, blue-eyed smile...

The end of Farrah Fawcett's life may have played out in the tabloids, but she belonged to us first. And by "us" I mean Generation X, generally, and the boys who cut their teeth chewing the plastic wrap off her rolled-up posters.
She was our...